On 2 June 2015 at 17:17, Gerald B. Cox <gbcox@xxxxxx> wrote: > Upstream response is if they are duplicated in the desktop file, then they > aren't needed in the appdata file. This is old advice and no longer true. One mistake I made when first pushing AppStream was to fall back to the .desktop file Name= and Comment= lines even with AppData. This was bad for two reasons: * We can't validate the AppData file without the presence of the .desktop file * We rarely want the same desktop comment and the one-line software center summary; it can be and if it is then the translators don't have to do any more work as it's extracted and deduplicated but ideally the summary is a one line "sell line". * It's a bit "magic" and makes things more complicated to explain > The Fedora guidelines say to use "validate-relax", but rpmlint appears to > use "validate". Which > is correct? Is <name> and <summary> optional or required? If i was to have my time again, I'd say required, but I don't want to start ignoring AppData files that were once valid. Relaxed validation is probably the right thing to do to also ignore the style guideline which sometimes are false positives in some cases. Richard. -- packaging mailing list packaging@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/packaging
